For content creators who leverage the regulatory requirements of the GDPR to refine their customer data-gathering processes and create—or rebuild—trust that such data will be used only to the customer's benefit, the byproduct should be more satisfied, more trusting, and more engaged customers. And that's a worthy goal on either side of the Atlantic.

Content Management

PhotoShelter, the world's leading professional photography cloud service, announced the latest release of its best-in-class cloud-based Libris media management service. With the introduction of video capabilities, Libris delivers a feature rich Digital Asset Management solution for visual content. Libris enables content creators and marketers at companies of all sizes and across industries to improve their workflows and visual storytelling.

OneSpot announced the launch of a new integrated solution purpose-built for delivering cross-channel personalization of branded editorial content. The proprietary Content Sequencing platform, which helps brands build content-driven one-to-one relationships by personalizing and sequencing content to individuals no matter where they are in the digital journey, now extends engagement across website, e-mail, mobile, social, and paid digital channels.

Progress announced major feature upgrades to Telerik Sitefinity CMS and Digital Experience Cloud, its content management and customer analytics platforms. The company says the new release provides more flexibility and agility for organizations to deliver contextually relevant, personalized experiences to website users, and offers new productivity enhancements that drive easier-to-use personalization options for the digital marketer's toolkit.

Mobile and cloud are the twin drivers that are changing the ECM world as we know it. As users increasingly demand access on the move, however there are still many issues to resolve between traditional back-office systems and the mobile world before enterprises will step out of their comfort zone.

Despite Fast Company's reputation as a leader in progressive ideas about business, its mobile app was starting to seem stale. It was not exactly a problem, but as user expectations changed, it became clear that the app was going to need to evolve. Meanwhile, Adobe was starting to think about new ways to help its customers create more dynamic mobile apps. The two companies began a conversation that led to a collaboration in which Fast Company got a new, more dynamic web-like app, and Adobe was able to learn more about what kind of functions and features were of value to customers hoping to build these kinds of apps.

Qubit announced it has added three new solutions to its integrated Experience Management Platform to enable clients to further scale and optimize their online shopping experience. Qubit, which delivers data-first customer experiences, provides a digital experience management platform that integrates analytics, segmentation, AB and multivariate testing, and web personalization functionalities with its Visitor Cloud, a real-time data supply chain.

Several months of public beta testing has culminated in WoodWing's release of its HTML5 authoring tool Inception. Available now, the Cloud-based tool is available to customers around the globe. Inception's article-based approach allows brands, publishers, and agencies to create compelling and responsive device-independent HTML5 content for any channel, including the Adobe Digital Publishing Solution 2015, Facebook Instant Articles, and Apple News, as well as WebCMS and print.

WoodWing Software announced Content Cloud, a one-stop solution for cloud-based managed content, offering unlimited storage as part of its services. The scalable solution hosts a wide range of applications for producing and managing digital and print content as well as for digital asset management and analytics. With this new offering, WoodWing addresses such essential requirements of magazine and newspaper publishers as the support of the latest channels, efficient distributed collaboration; easier distribution and sharing of content; and improving the return on investment in content.

Remember the mid-to-late 1990s-corduroy, Dolly the sheep, Netscape, The Matrix, and (last but not least) the inception of the web content management (WCM) industry? It's amazing, really, how the foundational pillars of WCM technology have evolved since then. Let's take a trip down memory lane and see how this evolution affects modern digital businesses.

e-Spirit Inc., a supplier of content management solutions, announced the release of version 5.2 of the FirstSpirit Content Management System with new capabilities and enhancements designed to support the recently announced Corporate Content Cloud initiative. With the new version of FirstSpirit, companies will be well on their way to achieving digital transformation with less time and less overall effort.

Did you know according to a 2014 industry survey by The Real Story Group, DAM implementations are thought to be successful only 50% of the time? However a working DAM implementation will save you hours and hours of wasted time and greatly improve your work processes. Here are a few pointers outlined by industry experts to improve your odds.

Get Smart Content, a multi-channel personalization platform, announced that it has raised a round of funding worth $3.5 million. The round was led by Origin Ventures with participation by Chicago Ventures and Virgo Capital.

Generis, a content management company, announced enhancements to its CARA solution, representing the most significant update to the solution since version 3.0. More than 100 new enhancements provide greater collaboration, easier customization, and enhanced interaction with external contributors that is built-in ensuring fast, reliable access to data/documents across the entire organization and beyond.

DocAuto, a globally trusted leader in Enterprise Content Management solutions and services, has released a new version of their Watchdog Module solution. The Watchdog Module lets administrators know what happens in WorkSite as it happens. This solution monitors all document activity within WorkSite servers and databases and sends alerts when suspicious user activity is detected, or other triggering events occur.

Evergage, a provider of real-time personalization, unveiled Evergage Recommend, an integrated recommendation system that is a native part of a full testing, targeting, and personalization solution. This new offering builds on the foundational real-time personalization capabilities of the Evergage Platform, incorporating dynamic suggestions of pertinent products or pieces of content that will resonate with individual visitors.

Progress announced the latest release of Telerik Sitefinity CMS and Digital Experience Cloud (DEC). This newest release aims to improve multi-site synchronization and predictive analytics, provide richer development tools, and extend content tracking and personalization to mobile apps. As part of the release, Progress also announced new translation features and a strategic alliance with Lionbridge.

Canto, a provider of digital asset management (DAM) solutions, announced the availability of Cumulus X with new features. This version 10 release introduces "Cumulus Portals" for branded, mobile-friendly, read-only access to assets by thousands of simultaneous users; as well as a completely new iOS app for better, read/write mobile DAM support on iPad and iPhone. Cumulus X also delivers an enhanced API for integration with other enterprise applications and third-party platforms.

Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), an industry provider in organizing and converting content into digital formats, announced the start of the second phase of the Scopus Cited References Expansion Program. To date, DCL has converted and enriched 3.7 million Elsevier, American Physical Society (APS), and Springer articles with more than 80 million cited references. The second phase of the project is focused on converting millions of records from more of the world's peer-reviewed journal publishers such as the Institute of Physics (IOP) and Wiley-Blackwell.

Web publishers are getting more creative in finding ways to keep visitors on their sites for longer periods and to retain the people who come from social media sites. Infinite scrolling is a fairly new and increasingly popular way of making website users more "sticky" by providing a passively loaded, never-ending stream of content. Is pagination yesterday's news?

e-Spirit Inc., a supplier of content management solutions, unveiled the Corporate Content Cloud initiative to help organizations achieve true digital transformation by using content more effectively and consistently to improve the customer experience across all touch points and throughout the entire customer journey. Components of the initiative include on-site planning sessions, the content engine, and technical support for building a Corporate Content Cloud along with integration resources and future proof integration technologies.

According to a new market research report "Web Content Management Market by Solution (Content Creation and Edit Tools, and Mobile Web CMS), Services (Managed Services, Support Training & Consulting), Deployment Type, User Type, Verticals, Regions - Global Forecast to 2020", published by MarketsandMarkets, the WCM market is set to grow from $3.47 Billion in 2015 to $6.85 Billion by 2020, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 14.5%.

CodeGuard has created a new pricing plan for its online service with the goal of making website backup and monitoring accessible to every small and midsize business. The company, which has offered website backup for over five years and says it currently monitors more than 250,000 websites for 50,000 companies, will now offer a free version of its service along with existing paid versions. CodeGuard Free costs nothing, comes with a guarantee, and supports one site, one database, and 5GB of storage per company.

On the morning I wrote this, I used 10: email, Evernote, GitHub, Slack, Google Docs, InDesign, text messaging, Basecamp, Excel, and (gulp!) Word. I use these tools interchangeably under the guise of organization. However, if I track back to my digital production schedule 10 years ago, InDesign, Excel, Word, and email were my only writing/communication tools. Even though the technology is streamlined, I'm using twice as many tools to accomplish the same core tasks that I did 10 years ago.

Built.io, a software technology company specializing in digital solutions and mobile application development, announced that it is releasing realtime capabilities to subscribers of its flagship mobile Backend-as-a-Service (mBaaS). With this enhancement of its architecture, Built.io Backend offers full support for cross-platform realtime integration.

Content is everywhere. It's the lifeblood of business. But creating, managing, and delivering it are much bigger challenges than need be. That's because the most widely used content production methods are centered on a paper-based publishing paradigm that doesn't serve us as well today. Although we've made incremental changes during the past several decades, those improvements weren't optimized to address the rapid growth in customer touchpoints, distribution channels, devices, platforms, and constantly changing customer expectations.